I have not had to "call in to register my card" or anything as such. I bought two cards & used one w/ my wife's name and the other w/ my name; I had purchased them both in the same bigcrumbs amex purchase too. So at least as far as I'm concerned calling in would just be extra legwork.

any updates on AP and You S Bank? the hotel or the propriety bank's perks programs? Need to top up an acct.
of course PM welcome.
thanks!

Using Amazon gift card
 

Can I pay someone via AP with an Amazon gift card?

Yeah, chase CC is ok. Done that for 2 months now.

no, and be prepared to get flamed for asking a question that has been asked and answered many times in the thread.

First of all, thank you for your answer regardless and I do apologize for stating something if it has already been asked. Just to be sure, does yours count as flaming, or should I wait for actual flaming from others? I do keep up with the thread on a regular basis, and no, I'm not going back through the last couple of years of postings to find an answer that takes someone who actually wants to help two seconds to answer. I don't spend my day on FT for a living. When hundreds of members ask questions, some will get repeated. That's inherent in a forum. If that annoys you, simply ignore the question and let someone who is actually trying to help answer it. This is a collaboration website, but then people complain about traffic going to the bloggers instead. There's no need to publicly critize or reprimand someone for posting a question.

Gonna say that I wasn't flaming, more pointing out that it tends to be a common occurrence around here, for better or worse. The debate over helping or flaming people who ask simple questions that can be found shows up in most every forum. Haven't decided where I personal fall as we were all newbies at some point, but I tend to make sure I read every post in a thread I find interesting as you will likely get your question answered plus learn quite a few more things. It took me forever to figure out what people were talking about and I do think there is a lot of value in avoiding being spoonfed and learning everything on your own.

That all being said, I apologize if I offended you but at least I answered your question. More specifically you can only add funds to your AP account by CC or bank account. You can only add funds to your regular amazon account by gift card, though of course you can pay by CC directly. Personally I buy the amazon gc's at your local office supply store and just load them. Means a little float to amazon as I work them off but I'll take that for the 5x. FYI, they typically say Kindle on them but they get loaded into your Amazon account just the same.

No worries and thanks again. I was going along the lines of trying to maximize the Discover 5% cash back bonus category coming up on 2nd quarter 2013, which is home improvement stores. Plenty of Amazon GCs at Lowes that I was thinking of draining through AP, but good to know that doesn't work. Cash back caps out at $1,500 spend or $75, so I thought that would be a quick way to make an easy $75. Gas cards it is then.

Thanks for the heads up about Lowe's selling Amazon gift cards. I shop a lot on amazon so will stock up on the cards from Lowe's next month using my discover card.

Is there a limit to how much money you can load through gift cards a month?

Yes. Zero

Apologies if this has been answered before in this thread - I tried looking but it is just so massive :).
I've had AP for about 6 months now and have done payments ranging from 900-975 from my AP to my fiancee AP, then cashed out to fiancee's bank account, and then xferred that to our joint bank account and used that to pay off my card.

I was wondering if this strategy will work, as I was interested in this AMEX Gold 50k point offer.

1. Open card for me (card A)
2. Open card for my fiancee, she adds me as an AU (card B)
3. Month 1. I send $1000 on AP from card A, from me to her. She cashes out to her individual checking account, we shuffle money to joint account and pay off Card A.
4. Month 2. I send $1000 on AP from card B (has my name on it since im AU), from me to her. She cashes out to her individual checking account, we shuffle money to joint account and pay off Card A.
5. Month 3? Transfer her 51k points to my account, sell our 102k points.
6. Month ??? - Close both cards (when to do this to avoid AF?)

In this way I hope to keep the process of A->B going while never going B->A.

Not recommended, as Amazon Payments transactions are likely to trigger financial reviews from AMEX.

Step 1 thru 4 look good to me.
Step 5, not sure how you're going to sell your points.
Step 6, don't close out your cards too early. Ideally, keep it for at least 6 months.

Even spread out in small amounts?